Julius lochman



J LOOHM'AN.

(No Model.)

SHIRT BOSOM.

No. 280,836. Patented July 10, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS LOOHMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHlRT-BOSOM.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,836, dated July 10, I883.

Application filed March 6, 1883.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JULIUS LocHMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Shirt-Bosom, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification, reference being had to the drawing which forms a part thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable shirt-bosom which can be used over the ordinary shirt or over any undershirt without any difficulty or inconvenience, and which in its construction shall possess decided advantages over similar shirt-bosoms now known or used, in this respect, that it shall be constructed to set well on the shoulders of the wearer, and which shall be prevented from rising in front or changing its position.

The drawing shows a perspective view of my improved shirt-bosom.

In the drawing, A indicates the bosom, which is made of three or four plies of material, .or more, if required, and is constructed to extend not only to the neckband B, but around the same, on each side, almost to the ends of the neckband. One ply of the material of which the bosom is composed is extended along each side of the latter, as indicated by C, it being smaller at the lower portion of the bosom and gradually increasing in size as it extends upward until it reaches the neighborhood of the neckband, where it is made considerably wider. The object of widening this extended ply C at this point is to furnish a suitable substitute forwhat is known in a shirt as the shoulder-piece. This extension 0 is finally secured at each end of the neckband. This constitutes the principal feature in my invention.

In adjustable shirt-bosoms, as well as in or: dinary shirts, the bosom itself has never extended beyond the front of the neckband and the shoulder-piece. The continuation of the bosom on each side has always been inter rupted by the shoulder-piece, which in shirts must be used and in adjustable shirt-bosoms (No model.)

could not heretofore be well dispensed with; but in my invention, by extending the shirtbosom'almost around the neckband B, I am enabled to make use at the neck of the shirt of this extension 0 of one ply of the material of which the bosom is composed as a shoulderpiece, receiving the same advantages that the latter furnishes in' shirts and shirt-bosoms. Moreover, in this method of constructing the bosom I produce an article which can be readily adjusted to the person over any shirt which has become dirty or soiled, and which con ceals effectively and completely the appearance of the undershirt. It can be used, as it will be seen, as asubstitute for the ordinary shirt; but another advantageous feature to be found in my shirt-bosom is that by extending one ply of the material of which the bosom is composed at the shoulders sufficiently I provide a rest for the suspenders, which circumstance will prevent the shirt-bosom from rising 011 the neck of the wearer when it is not attached to an undershirt.

I am well aware that there have been made false bosoms capable of being attached to the neckband and detachable at pleasure, as Well as shirts having various forms of shirt-bosoms, but none, that Iknow of, have been made with the bosom constructed to extend around the neckband and provided with an extension of one ply of its material circumventing the entire bosom and forming at the neckband a substitute for a shoulder-piece.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

i A new article of manufacture, the adjustable shirt-bosom constructed to extend around the neckband on each side of the shoulder, having one of the plies of the material composing the bosom extended around the bosom and enlarged near the neckband to form a substitute for the yoke or shoulder plait, substantially as described and set fortln JULIUS LOCHMAN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD-P. FARRELL, .AUGUsTUs A.- LEEG. 

